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  • Politics, Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth. A global analysis on the impact of country-level public policies

    Autore: Alessandro Niccolò Tirapani

    Abstract: Entrepreneurship has been considered, since more than 150 years, the “raw material” needed by a capitalist system to develop and grow. The individual initiative, anyway, have encountered different settings and regulations, as the democratic systems developed a more and more complex web of legislations. Consequently, academic literature have been arguing that lower bureaucracy leads to higher levels of entrepreneurship, which in turns causes economic growth. Since the Regan-Thatcher revolution, »

  • The English of Politics - The Language of Barack Obama and John McCain

    Autore: Fabrizia Ianieri

    Abstract: According to Orwell, the most striking example of bad habits in the English language is political writing. It is artificial, pompous, filled with Latin words falling “upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details” (Orwell, 1946, p.166), never fresh, vivid, sincere. Political language consists largely of euphemism, question-begging and, above all, vagueness. Orwell stated that “political speech and writing are the defence of the indefensible”, in that »

  • Power from Pulpits to Pueblos - Manifesto for a new kind of artistic, grassroots politics

    Autore: Stefania Marchese

    Abstract: My senior project is a thesis that explores the techniques of Theatre of the Oppressed as a new way to approach the issues of politics and power in a society. It draws parallels between the possibility that audiences have to participate in the making of a play and the intrinsic power that people have to participate in the political sphere of their society. It focuses on a discourse of the words politics and power, on a discussion of catharsis as a method to silence the audience both in theatre »

  • China in Latin America: political and economic implications of Beijing's involvement in the region

    Autore: Niccolò Locatelli

    Abstract: Relations with Latin America have never been and will probably never be a priority for the People's Republic of China (PRC), as they will be a dependent variable of domestic economic needs and other more important foreign policy goals – among all, the ties with the United States. Nevertheless, they deserve some attention. The PRC finds in Latin America a market of 500 million people and an almost infinite source of commodities: it currently gets from here around 17% of its overall »

  • The Europeanization of lobbying: a meta-analysis of current practices

    Autore: Andrea Fioravanti

    Abstract: Conceptually, this work is meant to be the follow-up of my previous thesis on alternative regulatory frameworks of lobbying practices in the EU. After having focused on the formal aspects and on the rules regarding the concept of interest representation at the supranational level, I’m going now to focus on an outlook which considers contents, strategies and some phenomena, like Europeanization, which are far from being irrelevant, in concrete terms, at the national level. To illustrate how »

  • EU decision-making and lobbying: a critical analysis of alternative regulatory frameworks

    Autore: Andrea Fioravanti

    Abstract: The focus is on the formal aspects and on the rules regarding the concept of interest representation and lobbying activity at the supranational level, in the EU. With this work I want to give a comprehensive picture of "the state of the art" in the lobbying regulation policy, a topic which has been discussed a lot in recent times but to which a clear definitive answer to the debate has not been given. In the first coceptual part I'll go through a detailed and exahustive description of the »

  • La questione della lingua nella produzione letteraria di George Orwell

    Autore: Renato Nicassio

    Abstract: La presente tesi si propone di affrontare uno dei temi fondamentali della variegata produzione letteraria di George Orwell e cioè la potenzialità e gli usi della lingua. L'argomento è - come evidente - ancora fortemente attuale. Si è scelto di analizzarlo con una particolare attenzione nei confronti dell'attività saggistica dell'autore spesso offuscata dai suoi due romanzi più celebri. Tre sono i saggi analizzati nella loro interezza: New words, Politics and the English language e The »

  • Mencius' Political Theory: A Critique of Political Corruption in the Philippines

    Autore: Gregorio Refugio

    Abstract: This thesis aims to expound Mencius’ political theory and apply it as a critique of political corruption in the Philippines. The researcher endeavors to realize a holistic comprehension of Mencius’ political theory by briefly exploring the contentions of Confucianism’s leading critique, namely; Mo Tzu, the founder of Mohism and Yang Tzu, the forerunner of Chinese individualism. Moreover, he inquires the nature and types of corruption as valuable backgrounds in understanding political »

  • Le implicazioni dell'anarchia internazionale: realismo difensivo e realismo offensivo a confronto

    Autore: Stefania Nicolosi

    Abstract: La presente tesi analizza uno dei dibattiti più recenti, sorto a metà degli anni Novanta all’interno della disciplina delle Relazioni internazionali: il dibattito tra «realismo difensivo» e «realismo offensivo», due filoni del realismo politico. Nello specifico, ci siamo chiesti se, in anarchia, l’interesse principale degli Stati è massimizzare la propria sicurezza (come affermano i difensivisti) o massimizzare il proprio potere relativo (come, invece, affermano gli offensivisti). Infatti, è »

  • EC=ME² "L'educazione civica e la sfida della comunicazione"

    Autore: Andrea Compagnucci

    Abstract: EC=ME² Il metodo dell’EC Parlando di educazione civica (EC) si può intendere una materia scolastica, un programma didattico o una disciplina. Alla luce del passaggio alla educazione alla convivenza civile e dei cambiamenti nei contenuti apportati dalla riforma Moratti, in questa tesi, l’EC non è studiata tanto dal punto di vista degli argomenti del curriculum (il catechismo della Repubblica), quanto da quello del metodo: un metodo democratico di ragionamento che fornisca gli strumenti per »